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In my research I aim to understand gene function in health and disease. To this end, I work on the crossroads of high-throughput molecular biology and computational biology to systematically map genes to their function in different biological contexts.


Key words: Bioinformatics, Genome Research, Functional Genomics, Image Analysis, Machine Learning

Overview

Name Florian Heigwer Publications 20
Nationality German h-index 15
E-mail f.heigwer[at]dkfz.de ORCID 0000-0002-8230-1485
Date of Birth 01/29/1988 Google Scholar GScholar

Education

Timing Degree Topic Grade
Since 02/2018 Post-Doc Functional analysis of genetic interactions using multivariate high-content screening methods  
10/2013-02/2018 PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) Advanced methods for functional genomics screening summa cum laude
09/2011-09/2013 M.Sc. Molecular Biotechnology Bioinformatics Tools for Genome Engineering 1.1
10/2008-08/2011 B.Sc. Molecular Biotechnology Optimization of Kinetic Microarray-ELISA 1.6
1998-22/05/2006 A-Level degree, Ev. Ratsgymnasium   1.4

Professional Career

Timing Group Institute  
Since 01/2013 M. Boutros (Div. Signaling and Functional Genomics) German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany  
09/2012-12/2012 A. Andersson (Div. Metagenomics) Science for Life Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden  
01/2012-09/2012 S.W. Hell (Div. Nanoscopy, Super Resolution Microscopy) German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany  
10/2009-06/2012 S. Wölfl (Div. Bioanalytics) Institute for Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology (IPMB), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany  

Honors

09/2012-12/2012 ERASMUS Placement Scholarship
01/2017 HBIGS-Travel grant
09/2018 CytoData-2018 Travel grant
09/2018 CyoData-2018 Challenge Winning Team (10.000$ Nvidia Card)

Publications

authors title journal year type
J. Neufeldt C., Cerikan B., Cortese M., Frankish J., Lee J., Plociennikowska A., Heigwer F. et al. SARS-CoV-2 infection induces a pro-inflammatory cytokine response through cGAS-STING and NF-κB BioRxiv 2020 preprint
Heigwer F., Boutros M. Cloud-Based Design of Short Guide RNA sgRNA Libraries for CRISPR Experiments Methods in molecular Biology 2020 research article
Port F., Strein C., Stricker M., Rauscher B., Heigwer F. et al. A large-scale resource for tissue-specific CRISPR mutagenesis in Drosophila eLife 2020 research article
Rauscher B., Henkel L., Heigwer F., Boutros M. Lineage specific core-regulatory circuits determine gene essentiality in cancer cells BioRxiv 2019 preprint
Heigwer F., Scheeder C. et al. Time-resolved mapping of genetic interactions to model rewiring of signaling pathways eLife 2018 research article
Scheeder C., Heigwer F., Boutros M. Machine learning and image-based profiling in drug discover Curr. Opinions in Systems Biology 2018 Review
Heigwer F., Port F., Boutros M. RNA Interference Screening in Drosophila Genetics 2018 Review
Rauscher B., Heigwer F., Henkel L. et al. Toward an integrated map of genetic interactions in cancer cells Molecular systems biology 2018 research article Cover
Caicedo J. C., Cooper S., Heigwer F. et al. Data-analysis strategies for image-based cell profiling Nature Methods 2017 Review, Cover
Scheeder C.*, Heigwer F. * & Boutros M. HTSvis: a web app for exploratory data analysis and visualization of arrayed high-throughput screens Bioinformatics 2017 research article
Rauscher B.*, Heigwer F. * et al. GenomeCRISPR - a database for high-throughput CRISPR/Cas9 screens Nucleic Acids Research 2017 research article
Heigwer F., Zhan T. et al. CRISPR library designer CLD: software for multispecies design of single guide RNA libraries Genome Biology 2016 research article
Boutros M., Heigwer F., Laufer C. Microscopy-Based High-Content Screening Cell 2015 review
Winter J., Breinig M., Heigwer F. et al. caRpools: An R package for exploratory data analysis and documentation of pooled CRISPR/Cas9 screens Bioinformatics 2015 research article
Volz H. C.*, Heigwer F. * et al. Single-cell phenotyping of human induced pluripotent stem cells by high-throughput imaging bioRxiv 2015 preprint
Heigwer, F. et al. E-CRISP: Fast CRISPR target site identification Nature Methods 2014 research article
Heigwer, F. et al. E-TALEN: a web tool to design TALENs for genome engineering Nucleic acids research 2013 research article
Kitanovic, A. *, Bonowski, F. *, Heigwer, F. * et al. Acetic acid treatment in S. cerevisiae creates significant energy deficiency and nutrient starvation that is dependent on the activity of the mitochondrial transcriptional complex Hap2-3-4-5 Front. Oncol. 2012 research article
Holenya, P. *, Heigwer, F. * and Wölfl, S. KOMA: ELISA-microarray calibration and data analysis based on kinetic signal amplification Journal of Immunological Methods 2012 research article
Holenya, P. *, Kitanovic, I. *, Heigwer, F. and Wölfl, S. Microarray-based kinetic colorimetric detection for quantitative multiplex protein phosphorylation analysis Proteomics 2011 research article

* contributed equally